American Multiculturalism

American Multiculturalism Multicultural education helps achieve the highest goals in the achievement of setting goals to all students. It promotes many different diverse languages, decision making and critical thinking. All the while moving away from inequality and moving towards cultural pluralism. Multicultural Education is to reform schools and gives all cultures a chance in every area: job, school and in the community. It also includes nationality, diversity and class to the students while teaching. This education benefits the students by centering their education in familiar ways to their culture and helps them think on it in multiple ways. In this way the students have an opportunity to be comfortable and in a relatively familiar setting to their culture. I have read on globalization and it is based on integration of different people with different backgrounds. “As a concept, refers both to the "shrinking" of the world and the increased consciousness of the world as a whole. It is a term used to describe the changes in societies and the world economy that are the result of dramatically increased cross-border trade, investment, and cultural exchange. The processes and actions to which the concept of globalization now refers have been proceeding, with some interruptions, for many centuries, but only in relatively recent times has globalization become a main focus of discussion. The current or recently-past epoch of globalization has been dominated by the nation-state, national economies, and national cultural identities. The new form of globalization is an interconnected world and global mass culture, often referred to as a "global village."(New World Encyclopedia, retrieved 1/18/13) The intent of this is to live alongside like cultures and befriend them economically and socially. History speaks of many encounters with multicultural education. It had its pros and cons. In some...

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... Spring 2012
Proposal
Final exam Brooklyn College
Topic: Multiculturalism in Children’s Literature.
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1- Culturally speaking of multiculturalism in Children’s literature.
2- How to build cultural bridges through international children’s literature.
3- Diversity in Children’s Literature( Asian-American, African-American)
4- Fight for cultural identity.
5- Recognizing and appreciating differences
6- Multicultural children literature as an instrument of power.
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...Multiculturalism
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...programs with music in our language. And my son will get a high school credit just for speaking his mother tongue!”
- A newcomer to mAnitobA’s KoreAn community
Please contact the Multiculturalism Secretariat for more information about:
• the Ethnocultural Community Support Fund and other funding sources • capacity building workshops and training sessions • opportunities to work collaboratively with other community associations • community economic development initiatives within ethno-cultural communities • opportunities to participate in citizenship promotion and anti-racism activities
multiculturalism
Past. Present. Future.
in mAnitobA
Multiculturalism is rooted in our past, lives in our present and sets the direction for our future. It embodies the hundreds of languages we speak, the festivals we enjoy and the traditions and values we teach our children. Most important, it reminds us that diversity and tolerance provide us with unity and strength.
Sharing Our Cultures
Manitoba Immigration and Multiculturalism 9th Floor - 213 Notre Dame Ave. Winnipeg, Manitoba R3B 1N3 Phone: 204-945-5632 E-mail: multisec@gov.mb.ca Website: manitoba.ca/immigration/multiculturalismMulticulturalism Secretariat
Sharing Our Cultures. Shaping Our Future.
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...II because their culture has directly influenced the main stream of Australia’s culture.
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...her to marry him, and this shows that they are engaged. People think of Easter in connection with spring and new life. Christians all over the world remember the death of Jesus Christ on His resurrection.
Multiculturalism is the acceptance of multiple ethnic cultures at the organizational level. This is applied to the demographic makeup of a country, where people from different religious backgrounds, countries, and tradition are given equitable status in schools, neighborhoods, cities, and nations. In the 19th century, America experienced massive immigration, which is one of the most important features of American society. This has given rise to multiculturalism in America.
Origin
This originated in the 1950s, during the civil rights movement. The movement brought on surface the issues regarding discrimination, inequality, and oppression. People placed their demands on political and social institutions for their social recognition. In the late 19th century and early 20th century, George Washington Carver, Charles H. Wesley, W.E.B. DuBoi, and William James played an instrumental role in promoting multiculturalism in the United States, and espoused the idea of a 'plural society'.
Effects
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...Advantages and disadvantages of the multiculturalism in big cities, particularly in London
Ethnic and racial diversity is not a new phenomenon in the world history: in the Middle East and the Mediterranean World, a multiplicity of cultures coexisted in rural areas as well as in cities since Antiquity. Nowadays multiculturalism has become an official policy in several European countries since the 1970s, for reasons that varied from country to country, including the fact that many of the great cities of the Western world are increasingly made of different cultures.
In less than three decades, “multiculturalism” has become a word immediately recognised by politicians, social commentators, academics and the general public. According to the Cambridge English Dictionary, multiculturalism can be defined as “the existence of several cultures within a society.” In the political context, this term has a lot of meanings, starting with the promotion of equal respect for different cultures in society, to developing of the conservation of cultural diversity in politics, in which people of different nationalities and religious groups are considered by the authorities as defined in the group they belong to.
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